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A minimal log-and-search memory matches specialized agent harnesses on long-horizon games.

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2026-08-01 10:54 UTC pith:UOENZJ54

load-bearing objection PRO-LONG's core result—an 18-point gain from a lossless log searched with code—is real and carefully measured; the 'matches or exceeds SOTA' framing survives only on one of three comparisons. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.20064 v2 pith:UOENZJ54 submitted 2026-07-22 cs.AI

PRO-LONG: Programmatic Memory Enables Long-Horizon Reasoning

classification cs.AI
keywords programmatic memorycontext managementlong-horizon reasoningLLM agentsARC-AGI-3append-only logcoding agentscontinual learning
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved

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This paper argues that the thorniest problem in long-horizon LLM agents—remembering a long history without either losing details or overflowing the context window—can be handled by the simplest possible move: append every observation, action, plan, and outcome to a single text log, and let the agent search that log with code. The authors wrap an ordinary coding agent with this 'programmatic memory,' adding almost nothing to the prompt. On the ARC-AGI-3 continual-learning game benchmark, the same base agent gains an average of 18.0 percentage points when given the log, and PRO-LONG matches or exceeds three purpose-built harnesses that use hand-crafted memory, world-modeling, and subagents, while consuming 4–6× fewer billed tokens. The intended lesson is that the fidelity–tractability tradeoff in agent memory is largely dissolved: you do not need summaries, embeddings, or learned write heuristics, because coding agents already know how to grep and parse text.

Core claim

The central claim is that 'programmatic memory'—an append-all write to logs.txt and a code-based read over it—is enough to match or beat specialized, hand-built agent harnesses on ARC-AGI-3. Across three frontier models, PRO-LONG improves over the same coding agent without the log by 15.7–21.0 points (average 18.0), reaching 41.2–76.1% pass@1 and up to 97.4% best@2 while using 4.2–5.8× fewer billed tokens. The authors attribute this to simplicity (write is trivial), losslessness (nothing is compressed), and compatibility with coding agents (programmatic search stays tractable for logs over 100k lines). Ablations support this: removing log persistence costs only 0.5 points, while truncating t

What carries the argument

The mechanism is PRO-LONG's programmatic memory: a single append-only structured log (logs.txt) that records every action header, plan, action, and board state, plus a read interface consisting of the coding agent's own tools—grep, sed, awk, and Python—used to search, parse, and even replay the log. The paper frames this as a write/read split: write is trivial (append all), and read is tractable because the agent can execute code to query the log (e.g., grep for score changes, write a script to replay actions, or build a transition model). This turns a memory design problem into a code-search problem and exploits the fact that coding agents are already strong at structured text processing.

Load-bearing premise

The head-to-head claim against the specialized harnesses depends on rescoring their publicly released runs under selection rules the original authors did not disclose (single released runs treated as pass@1, versus PRO-LONG's best-of-k), so those comparisons could be unfair; the internal no-log-vs-log comparison does not depend on this premise.

What would settle it

Re-run each prior specialized harness under its own original protocol for many fresh, independent games with a published selection rule, then compare pass@1 and best@5 against PRO-LONG on the same 25 games with the same 500-action budget and scoring code; if PRO-LONG no longer matches or exceeds them, or the token savings shrink, the headline claim fails. A cheaper check: run the no-log vs. PRO-LONG comparison on a second long-horizon benchmark; if the ~18-point gain disappears, the effect is not a general property of programmatic memory.

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If this is right

  • Agent memory design does not require lossy write heuristics: an append-only log with programmatic search matches specialized harnesses on a difficult continual-learning benchmark.
  • Adding a log file to a standard coding agent yields a consistent, large gain (15.7–21.0 points across models) on long-horizon exploratory tasks.
  • Because write costs are trivial, PRO-LONG uses 4.2–5.8× fewer billed tokens than the compared harnesses, and the full benchmark can be run for roughly $1,750.
  • The benefit concentrates on games where the current board does not determine the dynamics; for games solvable from the current view, the log adds little.
  • Lossless memory expands the set of solvable games: best@k curves rise faster with the full log than with a truncated log, and the gap widens as more runs are averaged.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A direct testable extension is to apply the same append-all-and-search recipe to other text-representable long-horizon benchmarks (e.g., NetHack-style environments); the paper's own ablations suggest the gain should transfer as long as the observation stream can be logged and replayed.
  • If the result holds, it implies that harness engineering effort can shift away from purpose-built memory indexes and world-model scaffolds toward simply giving coding agents raw, lossless histories and letting them write their own queries.
  • Because logs grow without bound, a hybrid design that keeps a lossless log but periodically summarizes only the oldest segments would test whether the apparent benefit is from full-history access or merely from recent history plus occasional search.
  • The strong dependence on independent runs (best@k) suggests that variance, not memory alone, limits current agents; an inference is that PRO-LONG's advantage might be amplified by techniques that reduce exploration variance, such as self-verification of learned rules.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper proposes PRO-LONG, a minimal context-management framework for LLM agents in long-horizon exploratory tasks. Instead of compressing or selectively storing observations, PRO-LONG appends every action, observation, and outcome to a structured log (logs.txt) and lets the agent read it with programmatic tools (grep, Python, regular expressions). The method is evaluated on the full ARC-AGI-3 public game set (25 games) with GPT-5.5, Opus 4.6, and Fable 5. The paper reports pass@1 gains of 15.7–21.0 percentage points over a matched no-log coding-agent baseline (average 18.0), with ablations showing the gains come from full log access and increasingly programmatic tools. It also claims to match or exceed specialized harnesses (WorldModeler, Arcgentica, Schema) while using 4.2–5.8× fewer billed tokens, and reports up to 97.4% best@2 with Fable 5 at a 2,000-action budget ($1,750 total cost).

Significance. The internal result is a clean, well-controlled empirical claim: adding a lossless log and code-based read to a coding agent yields a large and consistent improvement across three frontier models. The evaluation hygiene is a genuine strength: game versions are pinned (Table 4), the official engine 0.9.7 is used, scoring follows Eq. (1), and bootstrapped CIs are provided for multi-run pass@1. The no-log/PRO-LONG comparison is a matched ablation on the same models and tools, and the tool-ladder ablation (Table 1) supports the attribution to programmatic search. If the primary claim is the 18-point gain, it is convincing and useful. However, the broader 'matches or exceeds state-of-the-art' framing is not supported by the reported numbers (PRO-LONG trails on two of three model comparisons) and rests on rescoring released runs whose selection distributions are unknown. The paper is a valuable empirical contribution if the claims are calibrated to 'competitive' and the caveats about rescored runs are made prominent.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.1, Fig. 2, footnotes 2–3] The abstract and §1 state that PRO-LONG 'matches or exceeds state-of-the-art specialized harnesses.' The matched-budget numbers in §3.1 do not support this for two of three models: on GPT-5.5, PRO-LONG pass@1 is 41.2 vs WorldModeler's 45.1; on Fable 5 at 500 actions, PRO-LONG best@2 is 82.1 vs Schema's 84.4; at the extended budget, PRO-LONG's 97.4 best@2 is below Schema's 99.0, and the action budgets differ (2,000 vs up to 3,000). Only the Opus 4.6 pass@1 comparison (42.4 vs 39.0) is favorable, and that is against a single released run. The phrase 'matches or exceeds' overstates the evidence; it should either be replaced by a precise statement such as 'competitive with, and within 2–4 points of, published results,' or the analysis must be extended with a sensitivity check that justifies the stronger claim.
  2. [§3.1, footnotes 2–3; Appendix A] The rescored comparison to prior harnesses depends on unverifiable assumptions about run selection. WorldModeler and Arcgentica each release one run per game, and the paper labels these pass@1 without knowing whether those runs were selected from many attempts; Schema releases only its retained best run, so its score distribution is a maximum-of-two that cannot be cross-checked. If the prior runs are lucky or filtered, the reported SOTA scores are not estimates of the harnesses' true pass@1/best@2, and the comparison is not a matched or distributional one. The paper should explicitly frame the comparison as 'released runs,' provide a sensitivity analysis (e.g., treating a single prior run as best@1 vs best@k; or conservatively as an upper bound), and state in the abstract that the SOTA claim is based on rescored public trajectories whose selection procedure is unknown.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Table 1 caption] Typo: 'hierarchy of progammatic access' should be 'programmatic.' Also, the plus signs in the first column are cumulative; make this explicit so the reader does not interpret each row as a standalone configuration.
  2. [§2.2] The log contains 'the agent’s summarized plan.' The paper calls the write operation 'lossless' in §1; this holds for environment observations/actions/outcomes but not for the agent's own summaries. Please qualify the losslessness claim.
  3. [§3.1, Footnote 2] The sentence 'Schema uses a best-of-two heuristic over Opus 4.8 and Fable 5' is confusing because Opus 4.8 results are never reported. Clarify that this refers to the models Schema was run on, and that only Fable 5 is used in the comparison.
  4. [Figure 2, right panel] The legend labels 'PRO-LONG best@5' on the Codex panel; the comparison to WorldModeler is pass@1. Since the curves use different selection criteria, consider plotting PRO-LONG pass@1 as well, or add an explicit note that the token-cost comparison holds at different operating points.
  5. [§5 Conclusion] 'two of which were released after the benchmark' is vague; specify which models.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation; central result is a measured comparison on an external benchmark, with one non-load-bearing self-citation.

full rationale

PRO-LONG is an empirical systems paper, not a derivation. The headline improvement (15.7–21.0 pp over no-log, 18.0 average) is obtained by running both configurations on the same public ARC-AGI-3 games under the same 500-action protocol; neither quantity is solved for from the other, and no parameter is fitted to the outcome. The SOTA comparison rescoring (footnotes 2–3, Appendix A) is a fairness/validity concern, not circularity: it compares against externally released runs and is disclosed, and even if the rescored comparison is unfair, the internal no-log comparison stands independently. The only overlap with prior work is Cao et al. 2026, co-authored by co-author Bhuwan Dhingra, cited for the motivational claim that coding agents are effective long-context processors; this citation is not used as a uniqueness theorem, an ansatz, or a substitute for measurement, so it is not load-bearing. No equation reduces to its input; tool-ladder ablations are empirical attributions rather than tautologies. Verdict: no significant circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

4 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

No numbers are fitted to data. The protocol-level hand-chosen settings (budget, per-turn cap, best@k, log-window) are listed as free parameters because the headline scores depend on them. Axioms are the evaluation-fairness and representation assumptions that the empirical claims rest on; none is new physics or a new entity, and 'programmatic memory' is a design label, not an invented entity.

free parameters (4)
  • evaluation action budget = 500 actions/game (2,000 for Fable 5 full-budget run)
    Hand-chosen cap; scores and token cost scale with it; prior harnesses used different budgets (up to 3,000), so cross-harness comparisons rescale prices but not budgets.
  • actions per turn = 20
    Hand-chosen model-call granularity; affects how quickly the agent can react to log contents and hence per-game score.
  • best@k selection protocol = k=2 default; k=5 for GPT-5.5 best@5
    Reported scores select the best of k independent runs; comparing PRO-LONG best@k against prior pass@1 or retained-best runs is a hand-picked (and disclosed) comparison choice that affects the SOTA claim.
  • log-window truncation (ablation) = full log default; last-25-actions in the Figure 3 ablation
    The read extent is part of the method; the truncated condition isolates the value of full history.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption ARC-AGI-3 games and scoring (Eq. 1) implemented by the official arc_agi engine v0.9.7 with game versions pinned in Table 4 are a valid benchmark of long-horizon reasoning.
    Every reported score depends on this; the paper does not independently validate the benchmark.
  • domain assumption Rescored public runs of WorldModeler, Arcgentica, and Schema are representative of those harnesses' true performance, and Schema's retained-best-run logs suffice for cost comparison.
    Load-bearing for 'matches or exceeds SOTA'; prior runs are single playthroughs or selectively released best runs, so their distributions are unknown (Section 3.1 footnotes 2-3).
  • domain assumption Billed-token formulas (Eqs. 2-3) with stated price weights and API usage reports reflect real economic cost.
    Supports the 4.2-5.8x token-savings claim; cost differences could shift with API pricing changes.
  • domain assumption 64x64 ASCII grids with a 16-entry hex color map are an information-preserving enough observation representation; disabling vision does not handicap the agent.
    All non-vision agents see this compressed rendering; animation frames are marked but committed state is text. If text rendering drops information, scores would change.
  • domain assumption Frontier API models (GPT-5.5, Opus 4.6, Fable 5) behave as the versions available at evaluation time; base model capability is an uncontrolled variable, not a controlled one.
    The harness claims model-agnosticism, but the underlying models' behavior is outside the paper's control.

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Long-horizon tasks require sustained perception, reasoning, and exploration, and are a persistent challenge for large language model (LLM) agents. This gap is reflected in their limited performance on continual learning benchmarks such as ARC-AGI-3, especially when models are evaluated out of the box. Various agent harnesses have been proposed to close this gap, and each commits to a strategy for handling long sequences of observations, i.e., what information to save from the environment and how to load it into model context, a choice we argue is particularly consequential. Existing methods for context management face a significant tradeoff, as preserving more information makes retrieving relevant details less tractable. We propose PRO-LONG, a minimal context management framework built around programmatic memory for LLM agents in long-horizon, exploratory settings. PRO-LONG addresses the tradeoff by keeping a complete, structured interaction log and capitalizing on recent progress in coding agents to search this history efficiently. On the full ARC-AGI-3 public game set, PRO-LONG improves over a base coding agent by an average of 18.0 percentage points across frontier models, and matches or exceeds state-of-the-art specialized harnesses (up to 76.1% pass@1) while using 4.2-5.8x fewer tokens. With Fable 5, PRO-LONG achieves 97.4% best@2 at a total cost of \$1,750. Relevant code and logs are available at https://github.com/alexisfox7/PRO-LONG.

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